pandemonium

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: pan=de=mo=ni=um

CIDE DICTIONARY

pandemonium, n. [NL., from Gr. pa^s, pa^n, all + dai`mwn a demon.].

•  The great hall or council chamber of demons or evil spirits.  Milton.  [1913 Webster]
•  An utterly lawless, riotous place or assemblage.  [1913 Webster]
•  A condition of unrestrained disorder and chaotic, riotous uproar.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

pandemonium, n.
1 uproar; utter confusion.
2 a scene of this.

Etymology

mod.L (place of all demons in Milton's Paradise Lost) f. PAN- + Gk daimon DEMON

DEVIL DICTIONARY

pandemonium

n. Literally, the Place of All the Demons. Most of them have escaped into politics and finance, and the place is now used as a lecture hall by the Audible Reformer. When disturbed by his voice the ancient echoes clamor appropriate responses most gratifying to his pride of distinction.

THESAURUS

pandemonium

Abaddon, Agapemone, Arcadia, Big Rock-Candy Mountain, Canaan, Cloudcuckooland, Cockaigne, Eden, Eldorado, Erewhon, Garden of Eden, Gehenna, Goshen, Hades, Happy Valley, Land of Youth, Laputa, Naraka, Never-Never-land, Neverland, New Atlantis, Quivira, Shangri-la, Sheol, Tophet, Utopia, avichi, cloudland, dreamland, dystopia, faerie, fairyland, heaven, hell, infernal regions, inferno, jahannan, kakotopia, kingdom come, land of dreams, land of enchantment, land of faerie, land of plenty, land of promise, limbo, lotus land, lower world, millennium, nether world, paradise, perdition, place of torment, promised land, purgatory, shades below, the abyss, the bottomless pit, the grave, the pit, underworld, utopia, wonderland

ROGET THESAURUS

pandemonium

Hell

N hell, bottomless pit, place of torment, habitation of fallen angels, Pandemonium, Abaddon, Domdaniel, jahannan, sheol, hell fire, everlasting fire, everlasting torment, eternal damnation, lake of fire and brimstone, fire that is never quenched, worm that never dies, purgatory, limbo, gehenna, abyss, Tartarus, Hades, Avernus, Styx, Stygian creek, pit of Acheron, Cocytus, infernal regions, inferno, shades below, realms of Pluto, Pluto, Rhadamanthus, Erebus, Tophet, hellish, infernal, stygian, dies irae dies illa, the hue of dungeons and the scowl of night.